Money-savvy woman scammed out of £2.1m after her Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter reveals

From the Newshound archive · first published 28 September 2026.

A woman who had spent her life carefully managing her finances was defrauded of £2.1m after developing Alzheimer's, with her daughter now speaking out about how fraudsters exploited her mother's dementia. The case exposes how scammers deliberately target vulnerable people at the moment they lose the capacity to protect themselves.

In a separate case, a carer looking after her grandmother plundered the elderly woman's savings, saying she thought she had 'won the lottery'.

Both cases highlight the scale of financial abuse targeting elderly and vulnerable people, often by those closest to them or posing as trusted figures.